General WHEELER. The reason I prepared that list No. 4, totaling $49,000,000, was that I believed all of those projects would be presented to your committee here by their proponents. From that point of view, they are the highest urgency and I thought the list would be advantageous to the committee, in making a selection. Senator OVERTON. I am afraid we are going to get confused on this. I am already confused. I would like to have the opportunity to clarify them, if I may. LIST OF FLOOD CONTROL PROJECTS CONTAINED IN SECRETARY'S LETTER (List No. 1) No. 1, General, is the list of projects recommended by the Secretary of War to this committee? General WHEELER. Yes, sir. Senator OVERTON. Most of which appropriations have been made by the House but which the Secretary of War desires increased, including four items that were not included in the House bill? General WHEELER. Yes, sir. Senator OVERTON. And that totals $13,692,200? General WHEELER. That is right, sir. May I explain a little further on that, Senator, that these requested increases are to restore cuts that were made by the House. Those four items for which no funds were allowed by the House went up in a supplemental estimate from the Bureau of the Budget and the President to the House at the last minute. The Budget estimate arrived just as they were marking up the bill. (The list referred to appears on p. 2.) LIST OF PROJECTS SUBMITTED BY CORPS OF ENGINEERS TO BUDGET BUREAU, SHOWING ACTION THEREON AND AMOUNTS ALLOWED BY HOUSE (LIST NO. 2) Senator OVERTON. No. 2, then, would be the list headed: "Flood control, general, construction program, fiscal year 1947," with subheading: "Submitted by the Department to Bureau of the Budget"? General WHEELER. Yes, sir. Senator OVERTON. And the other subheading: "Included in estimate as transmitted to Congress by the President," and then with a notation of what was done by the House? General WHEELER. Yes, sir. Senator WHERRY. Right there, Senator Overton, before you introduce that, may I ask you a question? Senator OVERTON. Yes; it will be all right. I am not introducing it. I am just getting them clear. Senator WHERRY. My theory would be, if you could get the next exhibit, the total amount of what the Budget has approved. Senator OVERTON. That is it. Senator WHERRY. The Budget approved that which is about a net of $38,000,000. Is that in there? General WHEELER. Yes, sir; that information is also on the list to be designated "No. 2". Senator WHERRY. I thought that list included items that the Budget did not approve. Senator OVERTON. No, this No. 2 includes what the Budget did approve. Senator WHERRY. All right, sir. Then I have it clear. Senator OVERTON. That amounts to this total here. This totals $96,000,000. That is not right. General WHEELER. That mount of $96,000,000 is what the House approved. The total of $124,250,000 was the Budget approval. Senator OVERTON. All right. General WHEELER. And this [indicating column No. 1 of list No. 2] is the amount that we recommended. It totals $215,054,400. Senator CORDON. Do I understand that the document just described, which is beeded: "Flccd control, generel, construction program, fiscal year 1947," which contains three columns of figures, will be exhibit No. 2? Senator OVERTON. That is the way I understand it. Is that correct? LIST OF PROJECTS DISALLOWED IN FULL BY BUDGET BUREAU (LIST NO. 3) Senator OVERTON. No. 3, would be, "Projects which were included in the Department's Budget estimate for the fiscal year 1947 and which were not contained in the estimates before the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives." That is the War Department's? General WHEELER. Yes, sir. Senator OVERTON. This is No. 3. This is what the engineers submitted to the Bureau of the Budget and they did not approve? General WHEELER. Yes, sir. Senator OVERTON. What do we call this list? General WHEELER. This is No. 3. Senator OVERTON. This one right here. Senator CORDON. The total is seventy-two-million-odd dollars. LIST No. 3 Projects which were included in the department's Budget estimate for the fiscal year 1947 and which were not contained in the estimates before the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives Crawford County levee district, Arkansas.. McLean Bottom levee district No. 3, Arkansas. Near Dardanelle, Ark.. West of Morrilton, Ark. Conway County levee district No. 6, Arkansas. Conway County levee districts Nos. 1, 2, and 8, Arkansas Roland drainage district, Arkansas.. Wichita and Valley Center, Kans.. Fort Supply Reservoir, Okla. Great Salt Plains, Okla. Cherokee, Okla... Markham Ferry Reservoir, Okla. Jenks, Okla.. Dirty Creek Bottom, Okla. Tucker Lake Bottom, Okla. Braden Bottom, Okla.. Estimate for fiscal year 1947 $2, 000, 000 1,296, 800 618, 600 2, 000, 000 1, 470, 000 1, 000, 000 195,000 264, 000 129, 000 Big Skin Bayou-Camp Creek Bottom, Okla. Moffett Bottom, Okla. Fort Chartres and Ivy Landing drainage district No. 5, Illinois. Degognia and Fountain Bluff drainage and levee district, Illinois... Red Lake River, Minn., including Clearwater River, Minn. Park River Reservoir, N. Dak. Missouri River levees, Sioux City, Iowa, to the mouth. Chariton River, Mo.. Dennison, Iowa... Cold Brook Reservoir, S. Dak. Hazen, N. Dak.. Forsyth, Mont Louisville, Ky. Reevesville, Ill. Sutton Reservoir, W. Va.. St. Marys, Pa... Buckhannon, W. Va... Farm Creek Reservoirs, Ill.. 500, 000 705, 000 100, 000 734, 000 426, 000 388, 000 13, 000 770, 000 853, 000 328, 600 3, 000, 000 766, 000 17, 800 400, 000 4, C00 146, 800 1, 000, 000 315, 000 3, 000, 000 219, 200 1, 185, 200 996, 000 |